May 29, 2021 — You can build your brand while boosting sales, referrals, and loyalty) by building a community around your products, services, and agency.

This talk shares some of the best practices in building community. It includes information about Facebook groups, social media strategy, community engagement, and the role of a customer success team.

May 29, 2021 — Follow one person’s journey from casual blogger to WordPress support professional to WordPress developer. You will learn that everyone can find their place in WordPress!

May 28, 2021 — Learn about Google Core Web Vitals: what they are, how to track them, and how to improve Core Web Vitals metrics.

May 28, 2021 — Web Components are custom HTML tags you can create and these are part of the browser specification. HMTL code and JavaScript can be wrapped into a custom HTML tag and used like regular HTML. Think ‘widgets’ or HTML plugins.

Learn how to create your own HTML tags to use in WordPress pages, Gutenberg blocks, or even create HTML/JS/CSS ‘plugins’ to deploy in any HTML site.

May 28, 2021 — This talk offers a deep dive into the architecture, development decisions, and release process behind the “Must-Use” (MU) plugin that runs on every WordPress site across the Nexcess Managed Applications platform.

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May 28, 2021 — This talks empowers minority-owned businesses for marketing success by sharing information, tool recommendations, and strategies. Part one topics include your passions, business models, and branding. Part two continues with building websites and digital marketing.

May 27, 2021 — This talk shares the current status of Full Site Editing development. It provides a look behind the scenes at some themes created as early examples for theming WordPress with Full Site Editing. The session covers Templates, Template Parts, experimental-theme.json and more.

May 27, 2021 — This talk shares a product marketing framework that explains how to market your WordPress product: which channels to explore and how to approach the marketing plan.

May 26, 2021

May 26, 2021 — This talk shares a holistic approach for the complete lifecycle of an accessible website, including how to iterate on existing content.